* Posts by Patras

10 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Feb 2016

Boring SpaceX lobs another sat into orbit without anything blowing up ... zzzzz

Patras

seems so

Craigslist: 36 Used rocket engines, $10 million each. Only used one time, less than 30 minutes flight time. Must have own transport to collect. sales@RedsUsedParts.com

Also see our "cheaper by the dozen" ad.

'Toxic' WIPO catches flak as US congressmen call for Gurry's head

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WIP

World Intellectual Property Organisation

Apple pulled 2,204lbs of gold out of old tech gear

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Cost

Possibly that the cost of recycling is included in the purchase price.

Canny Canadian PM schools snarky hack on quantum computing

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Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, has a Ph.D in Physics.

SQL injection vuln found at Panama Papers firm Mossack Fonseca

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Financial Times

Panama is only one head of the tax haven Hydra "allowed firms such as Mossack Fonseca to flout its own weak official safeguards against financial crime. The client leaks point to links with drugs lords, Mafiosi, terrorists, arms companies and rogue states. The fact that Mossack Fonseca can state that it has never been accused or charged in connection with criminal wrongdoing shows that Panama’s financial regulators, police, judiciary and political system have been part of the system — corrupted or influenced by the lucrative flows from the dirty .....

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Re: @Syntax Error & Patras Fonseca

Only that man's law changes.

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Ethically Challenged

"They haven't broken any laws." = Legalese for Morally and/or Ethically wrong.

Nietzsche wrote the law is not morality.

My generation is all screwed up believing this legal shite determines what is right and wrong. Capitalism is also not morality but that...

Snowden 'more helpful than dangerous' says ex-Colin Powell aide

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hi gubool

Watching the movie now, great movie.

Obama puts down his encrypted phone long enough to tell us: Knock it off with the encryption

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OMG

I cannot believe he actually said that. It sounds like the ramblings of a crazy person.

Coding is more important than Shakespeare, says VC living in self-contained universe

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The_Bell_Laboratory_Science_Series

Below is a Science & Shakespeare connection...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Laboratory_Science_Series

The host for the first eight films was Dr. Frank C. Baxter, a USC professor of English and television personality who played the role of "Dr. Research".

During the 1950s, his (Dr. Frank C. Baxter) program Shakespeare on TV won seven Emmy Awards. He was a professor of English at the University of Southern California.

The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays (1957)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_wt5AFjRQo